Max Alpert
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|birth_date = 18 March 1899
|birth_place = Simferopol, Russian Empire
|death_date = 30 November 1980 (aged 81)
|death_place = Moscow, Soviet Union
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Max Vladimirovich Alpert ({{langx|ru|Макс Владимирович Альперт}}; 18 March 1899 – 30 November 1980) was a prominent Soviet photographer who was mostly known for his frontline work during World War II.{{cite book|author=Константин Залесский|title=Великая Отечественная война. Большая биографическая энциклопедия|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yYzSAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA1929|date= 2015|publisher=АСТ|isbn=978-5-457-27697-0|pages=1929–}}
Biography
Before World War I, Alpert studied in Odessa, together with his brother Mikhail Alperin, and after the war worked as a photographer for Rabochaya Gazeta (Workers Newspaper) in Moscow. In the 1930s, he photographed numerous construction sites of the Soviet Union. During that time, Sergei Eisenstein stayed with him at the Great Fergana Canal and was impressed by his passion for photography.[http://newswe.com/index.php?go=Pages&in=print&id=2116 МЫ ЗДЕСЬ – Публикации]. newswe.com. March 2010 In parallel, Alpert worked for Pravda, where he was known as a prolific portrait photographer. During World War II, he took a number of iconic photographs at the Soviet frontlines and also documented military events in Prague and Berlin. For his work during the war, he was awarded the Order of the Red Star (1943), the Order of the Patriotic War (1945) and the Order of the Red Banner of Labour. After the war, he worked at RIA Novosti, where he compiled a famous photo album of Nikolai Amosov.{{citation needed|date=February 2020}} Examples of his images are held in the Sovfoto archive.
Gallery
RIAN archive 79113 Seizing grain from kulaks.jpg|Komsomol members seize "grain hidden by kulaks" 1 November 1930
Витя Черевичкин.jpg|Viktor Cherevihkin, a Soviet teenager killed by German troops occupying Rostov for keeping pigeons, 28 November 1941
RIAN archive 543 A battalion commander.jpg|Kombat, possibly 12 July 1942
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Category:Artists from Simferopol
Category:Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour